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Anti-racism activist sentenced after being choked by police

Anti-Black Pete activist Jerry Afriyie has been sentenced to pay damages for resisting arrest. Afriyie protested against ‘Black Pete’ at the 2014 Sinterklaasintocht in Gouda, but was violently arrested for wearing a t-shirt that stated ‘Black Pete is racism‘. According to the public prosecutor, Afriyie should not have resisted the violent arrest.

According to police, Afriyie was arrested in 2014 because his protest would cause direct danger. Another 89 people were arrested that day, but Afriyie is the only one who has to appear before the court. According to police, Afriyie pushed police and pinched one officer’s leg as he was being arrested.

The court in The Hague ruled last year that police had indeed used too much violence during the arrest and that there had never been any actual direct danger. The public prosecutor disagreed and appealed the ruling. Afriyie now has to pay 500 euro for damages to the officers who violently arrested him, and on top of that received a conditional fine of 500 euros.

Huh why is Jordan Peterson deleted? Who just like Femke Halsema, correctly warns for the dangerous effects of creating group guilt? Not for nothing Erdogan, Denk and Islamists use divisional tactics of identity politics. Things will only get worse by this ideology even Femke Halsema from a party I find quite extreme, knows that identity politics only create problems. Like Martin Luther King said in his I have a dream speech, we should treat eachother without looking at color. That you can’t say what King said anymore shows how extreme things have become at the left. Also Jordan Peterson ofcourse lost friends and got deaththreats, like this is the usual treatment for conservatives nowadays.

Marijke Vonk is a Dutch sex-positive psychologist specialised in working with sexual minorities. Besides working as a therapist, she is a writer and lecturer on various topics concerning sexuality. Main topics on this blog include kink, gender equality, sex workers' rights, non-monogamy and psychology.